[issue1023290] proposed struct module format code addition

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Pickle is a solution only if you accept the target format to be opaque,
which is not what you are looking for usually.
Once again I just had to write the cumbersome:

junk_len = 1024
junk =  (("%%0%dX" % junk_len) % random.getrandbits(junk_len *
8)).decode("hex")

... because there is no obvious way to convert longs to bytes.

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